Conference hears how study of medical history faces global crisis

The final paragraph of this news article by Wendy Moore (BMJ 2010;341:c3878, doi:10.1136/bmj.c3878), contained an error about the origin of recent analysis of skeletons in Denmark. Professor Monica Green, professor of history at Arizona State University, who was cited in the paragraph, has told to us, “Although I did mention some research concerning Denmark, the early data Ms Moore was referring to came from Germany, not Denmark.”